[f. L. aure-us golden + -ITY.] The peculiar properties of gold; goldenness.
1824. Coleridge, Aids Refl., App. C. (1858), I. 379. The properties peculiar to gold were … generalized in the term Aureity.
1847. Lewes, Hist. Philos. (1867), II. 219. Having no more objective existence than the lapidity of stone, the aureity of gold.
